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SIS is pleased to note that two graduate
students in the Library and Information Science Program – Justin
Bonfiglio and Ben Blake – are being recognized
for their academic excellence. 
Justin Bonfiglio, who is working towards his Master’s
Degree in the Preservation Management Specialization,
was awarded the Image Permanence Institute (IPI) Internship
in Preservation Research. This internship program,
offered by the IPI in cooperation with the Association
of Moving Image Archivists, is designed to provide
students who are pursuing a career in the field of
moving image archives with experience through a three-month
paid internship at the IPI. The competitive internship
program will allow Justin to gain invaluable practical
experience in preservation research. Congratulations
to Justin and his advisor, Karen Gracy.
Ben Blake, an MLIS student in the Archival Studies
Specialization, will be honored by the Society of American
Archivists (SAA) with the 2006 Theodore Calvin Pease
Award for his student paper, “A Call for a New
American Labor Archives: History, Theory, Methodology
and Practice.” SAA reviewers noted that
Ben’s paper was “a thoughtful, well-written
study that grounds the development of labor archives
in the context of the archival progression.” Interestingly,
Blake’s work calls for labor archives to create
knowledge management partnerships with labor unions. Ben
will receive his award at the SAA Awards Ceremony to
be held on August 4th in Washington DC. In addition
to a certificate and cash prize, Ben’s paper
will be published in a forthcoming edition of American
Archivist, a peer-reviewed journal published by the
Society of American Archivists. Ben, who is advised
by Richard Cox, recently accepted a position as an
archivist at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington,
Delaware. The School of Information Sciences congratulates
Ben on this national recognition of his work.
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